On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:08:49 +0100 Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> wrote:
> Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts > > of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. > > Indeed. > > > Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian > > haven't been active for a long time, and the current package in > > Lenny is simply not working. I consider that having a non-working > > yum package in Debian Lenny is a grave regression. > > I've put the co-maintainer in Cc so he can comment on whether he wants > to take over full maintainership or wants extra co-maintainers or > wants to orphan the package... > > > With a little bit of communication, I've been able to make a > > working yum package, and I could setup a CentOS on a Xen dom0 Lenny > > server. Please read this: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496137 > > > > Having yum working means that we need the python-iniparse and > > python-gpgme packages (which will both reach SID after Lenny is > > out, as said the new package maintainers), as SHOULD depend on it. > > The Lenny version doesn't unfortunately. > > Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug > report. > > > My proposal, as it's of course too late for the first release of > > Lenny, is that python-iniparse and python-gpgme, plus a patched > > version of Yum, would be prepared and send in "lenny proposed > > updates". The thing is that: > > > > - I don't know what is the way to send it to proposed updates > > http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates > > > - I'm not comfortable with python packages, and I don't think it's a > > good idea that I take over the maintainership of yum in Debian, even > > though I really need this package. Any volunteer out there? > > Waiting for an answer of the co-maintainer... > > Cheers > > Luk I was only working on it on behalf of OLPC. Since I'm no longer with them, I don't really have any interest in working on it. I would suggest giving it to someone who has a use for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
